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Many of them might well have wound up programming anyway. And so this language has the potential to shunt them off into a likely dead-end language. Although, y
by egdod 7y ago
Many of them might well have wound up programming anyway. And so this language has the potential to shunt them off into a likely dead-end language.
Although, yes, it might be a “gateway drug” kind of thing where they wind up learning more mainstream languages as well. I’m just saying it’s not an obvious and unalloyed win.
- gkfasdfasdf 7y agoIs scratch a dead-end language? It's not used for anything production grade, and it can't be modified in vi because it requires a gui of all things! Yet millions of children (and adults) learn about programming through scratch and create amazing things. It is not a dead-end language.